{"id":30593,"date":"2013-06-15T18:35:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T22:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=30593"},"modified":"2013-06-15T18:36:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T22:36:19","slug":"tokushima-awa-odori-chicken-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/15\/tokushima-awa-odori-chicken-curry\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokushima &#8220;Awa Odori&#8221; chicken curry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/tokyotombaker.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Baker <\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.chiba.lg.jp\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chiba<\/a>, 1989-91)\u00a0is writing a 47-part weekly series of posts on his <a href=\"http:\/\/tokyotombaker.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyo Tom Baker blog<\/a>, in which he\u00a0samples and comments on a curry from a different prefecture each week. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his fifh installment, about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.tokushima.jp\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tokushima Prefecture<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The largely rural prefecture was once a major supplier of chicken to the urban market in Osaka, a relatively short boat ride away.<\/p>\n<p>But in the late 1960s, poultry imports began on a large scale\u2014particularly from Brazil, which is still a significant supplier of chicken to Japan. In the face of such competition, the absolute and relative size of the Tokushima poultry industry began to shrink.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to distinguish their product, Tokushima farmers began<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetro.org\/trends\/shikoku_food01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> crossbreeding<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/albc-usa.org\/cpl\/shamo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shamo chickens <\/a>(a Japanese breed that has Thai roots) with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plymouth_Rock_(chicken)\" target=\"_blank\">white Plymouth Rock chickens <\/a>from America. They called the resulting birds \u2026 Awa Odori.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Baker (Chiba, 1989-91)\u00a0is writing a 47-part weekly series of posts on his Tokyo Tom Baker blog, in which he\u00a0samples and comments on a curry from a different prefecture each week. Here\u2019s an excerpt from his fifh installment, about\u00a0Tokushima Prefecture: The largely rural prefecture was once a major supplier of chicken to the urban market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[70],"tags":[1035,1034,1033,1036],"class_list":["post-30593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","tag-awa-odori","tag-chicken-curry","tag-tokushima","tag-tokyo-tom-baker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-7Xr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30617,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30593\/revisions\/30617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}